Who are we without museums? Supposedly a tribute to France’s artistic excellence throughout the centuries, Francofonia quickly reveals itself as an exploration ...
Premiering out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass goes deep inside Boston’s underworld to chronicle the life of real-life gan...
The only Russian entry in a Venice competition with an excellent track record in unearthing gems from the region - highlights from the last decade include Garpa...
Andrew Niccol made a name for himself with a particular brand of topical filmmaking (Gattaca, The Truman Show, S1mone, Lord of War, In Time) keen on capturing a...
"Cinema is a never-ending long take," Pier Paolo Pasolini once said. "And death is a form of instant editing of a whole life, picking and arranging our most sig...
It was 2000 when Michael Almereyda debuted his Hamlet adaptation, with a young Ethan Hawke as the troubled prince and a steely, haughty Manhattan skyscraper in ...
Roy Andersson's films are a rare Swedish treat, only coming after we patiently wait for him to carefully assemble those meticulous Studio 24 sets necessary to h...
Shot over 20 days, largely in director Barry Levinson's own Connecticut house, The Humbling is an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel looking at the enigmatic fig...
After mysteriously withdrawing from Cannes a few months back, Fatih Akin's The Cut lands at the Venice Film Festival as one of the highest-profile titles in the...
With Prince Avalanche and Joe (also competing for the Golden Lion in Venice) audiences could feel very comfortable in their newly-repositioned set of expectatio...
